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It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated…

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The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is,…
Programming in Basic causes brain damage.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.
I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking…
APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection.
Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because…

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